Ovid Flashcards
The flood
Jupiter summons a flood to the city because he does not like how everyone is treating him badly.
Lycaon
A man who treated Jupiter very cruel, even attempting to kill him in his sleep. Because of this action, Jupiter summons a flood to the city.
Deucalion & Pyrrha
A couple who are very nice and loyal and pious to Jupiter. Thus, when the flood comes, they are saved. Themis secretly tells them how to repopulate the world again. They had to desecrate their mother’s bones. However, Deucalion thinks Themis means to put the earth’s rock and stones behind their backs, not their actual mother’s bones.
- Io
She is raped by Jupiter and his wife Juno becomes suspicious. So Jupiter turns Io into a cow. Juno demands Io the cow as a gift and makes Argus watch over her. Meanwhile, Jupiter sends out Mercury to kill Argus and he does. Then, Io is turned into a nymph. She gives birth to Epaphus
- Phaeton
He goes to see the Sun to find out if he is really his father. The Sun even says so for himself, but Phaeton is not convince. He demands to drive the sun chariot. Although, Sun refuses, his son was too stubborn. When Phaeton starts riding it goes out of control and he could not control. Thus, he burnt the earth, forming desserts. Jupiter sees what happens, and strikes a thunderbolt at Phaeton to prevent any other disaster and killing him.
- Callisto and Arcas
Callisto is a follower of Diana. But Jupiter rapes her and becomes pregnant. Diana sees her condition is puts her to exile. Knowing this, Juno turns her into a bear to make up for her husband’s actions. Callisto’s son Arcas is in the woods and confronts a bear that is his mother. Not knowing this, he is about to kill her, when Jupiter change both mother and son into a constellation.
- Aglauros
She is the sister of Herse, who Mercury is in love with. He makes Aglauros help him groom him. Minivera finds out and summons Envy to role his trick on Aglauros. Aglauros becomes very jealous of anyone with good fortunate and is turned into stone. Mercury fails to win Herse.
- Europa
She is the lost daughter of Egenus. He summons Cadmus to find her or else he will die. But he could not find her.
- Cadmus
He had to find Europa but failed. So he prayed to Appollo to find out where to go. On his journey to find the city, he and his men kills a snake and then suddenly everyone started to kill each other.
- Diana and Actaeon
Actaeon is the grandson of Cadmus. He saw Diana taking a shower in the woods. Offended, Diana turns him into a deer. Then his own dogs kills him.
- Semele
She is daughter of Cadmus. She is pregnant with Jupiter’s child. Juno disguises as an old woman and convinces Semele to ask Jupiter to make love with her like he does with Juno. He accepts but Semele could not handle it and dies. She bears her son Bacchus.
- Tiersias
He is a prophet who has experience life as both woman and man. Jupiter and Juno argue which gender enjoys sex so they go to him. Tiresias agrees with Jupiter that women enjoy it more. Juno strikes him blind but Jupiter gives him supernatural foresight. He was right about Narcissus’s fate.
- Narcissus and Echo
Echo is a nymph who can only repeat what others are saying. She stands guard when Jupiter is sleeping with other nymphs. So when Juno comes along, he talk start a conversation with him. Juno figures out what is happening and deprives Echo of talking/speech. So Echo sees Narcissus in the woods and falls in love, but she has to wait for him to make the move. Then he gets separated from his friends and encounters Echo. He sees her and wants nothing to do with her. So Echo is wasted away and only her voice is left. Narcissus makes everyone fall in love with him but he always rejects them. Then, a man prays for Narcissus to feel the same rejection he inflicts on people. Then he sees his reflection in a pool of water and falls in love with it. He knows it’s his own self but nonetheless he mope around there. Soon after he dies and turns into the flower narcissus.
- Pentheus and Bacchus
Pentheus is a mean price of Thebes who make fun of Tiresias. He also disrespects the god Bacchus and wants his men to go capture him. However, his men capture Acoetes, who tells a story of meeting a boy who was Bacchus but no one believed him. In fact that boy was the god and he turned all the crew men into dolphins except Acoetes. Pentheus does not care to respect the god and hates that all the women are frenzy. His mother, Agave sees him as a boar and capture him and then kills him.
- Pyramus and Thisbe
They lived right next to each other and fell in love but their family forbade it. There was a wall separating them so they talked through a crack. They decided to run away and meet at a tomb. Thisbe was there first but ran away in sight of a lioness. She dropped her shawl. When Pyramus got there, he saw the lioness and the shawl. He believed Thisbe died so he stabs himself. When Thisbe comes back, she sees Pyramus and kills herself as well.
- Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
Hermaphroditus is the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He was at a river when Salmacis sees him and falls in love. But Hermaphroditus rejected him. Then he goes swimming and Salmacis could not stop herself but to jump in with him. He resist but she kept hugging him. Then she prayed for her and him to be one. And so it happened, they fused into both male and female beings.
- Perseus and Andromeda
Perseus is coming back from stealing golden apple, when he enters Ethiopia. He sees Andromeda chained to a rock. So he helps her by defeating a seam monster and making her his wife. He carries around Medusa’s head as his weapon. At his wedding, Phineus accuses Perseus to steal his bride from him. They fight and he turns everyone to stone.
- Ceres and Proserpina
Ceres’s daughter Proserpina is captured by Pluto who was struck with Cupids arrows. Thus, Pluto takes her to the underworld. Ceres goes all over the world looking for her. She comes to a river in Sicily, where Proserpina wan captured. Cyane who knew what happened was turned into water but see managed to show her Proserpina’s girdle. Ceres, the goddess of harvest, becomes very sad and all crops began to die. Arethusa said she saw her as the queen of Pluto now. Ceres goes to Jupiter to bring her daughter back. He could do that if she had not eaten anything from the underworld world. But she did eat seven pomegranate seeds. So Jupiter compromised and Proserpina stays six months with Pluto and then with her mom.
- Arethusa
She is the goddess of spring and helps Ceres find her daughter. She was a nymph living in Greece. One day she went for swim in a river that was inhabitant of the god Alpheus. He fell in love with her and chased after her. She begged to goddess Diana for help. Diana turned her into a mist, so she would be invisible. But Alpheus kept looking, making Arethusa sweat and turning into a puddle. Thus, Alpheus turned into himself back to a river so he could mingle with her.
- Arachne
She is a great knitter from Lydia. She boasts how great she is and that she could beat Minerva, the goddess of weaving, in a contest. Then, Minerva appeared at her house as an old women to warn her not to brag and disrespect the goddess. But Arachne does not listen and Minerva shows herself. They have a contest, in which both contestants weaves a pictures of gods. Everyone love Arachne, making her win. Minerva tears her piece up and smacks her in the head. She then hangs herself. Minerva takes pity and lets her live as a spider.
- Niobe
She is a woman from Thebes, who is very proud of her seven sons and sevens daughters. She did not like how everyone were worshipping goddess Latona. She wants everyone to worship her. All her sons die by the arrows of Apollo and Diana. Her husband kills himself. But she still is defiant and brags about her remaining daughters. Then, all her daughters are also shoot. She weeps so much that she turns into stone.
